Wow that's an impressive feat you took on. I don't want to come off the wrong way but I can't see this as something that would make sense financially. When you factor in the amount of time and effort and $$$ in what it took to do this it seems you would be better off just buying a MM in the 9k range. Of course if someone like yourself was looking to take on a creative project and had nothing but time on his hands it would make for a very interesting project.
Just the sheer time it would take and the frustration factor from not being able to find stuff to the tech issues at building it let alone having to find another MM as a model to base it off of seems like this may be a one time deal.
All that being said I applaud you for your effort. Can't wait to see the pics when your page is working again.